Stockbridge
Stockbridge is a small town and also civil parish in the Test Valley district of Hampshire, England. It is among the tiniest towns in the UK with a population of 592 since the 2011 census. It rests astride the River Test and also at the foot of Stockbridge Down. The town is positioned on the A30 road, which as soon as carried most of the website traffic from London to Dorset, southern Somerset, Devon and Cornwall in the South West, though today this route is lesser than the A303 dual carriageway to the north. The bridge over the Test resulted in the town's name, a local tale suggested a coach stop equipped arrangements, yet it derives from an earlier bridge that was made of 'supplies' (tree trunks). Salisbury is 15 miles (24 kilometres) by road; Winchester is 8.3 miles (13.4 km) by the B3049 road that signs up with the A30 close by. The town's lengthy high street was thus on a helpful course in between the two medieval cathedral cities. The community's civil church has an area of 1,323 acres (535 ha). The community's street goes across the River Test, noting the border of the churches of Stockbridge and Longstock by a reduced bridge of 3 arches rebuilt and widened in 1799. 5 smaller river channels circulation with the community. For a brief time, to offer area for fish, these were split right into 8 man-made ditches just above the town. The town gets on a shared pedestrian/footpath, the Test Way.
